@GossiTheDog Makes sense - iirc they explicitly note monitoring typing data is under optional and not required diagnostics so having them keylog normal users would be a helluva problem
@GossiTheDog The switch to cloud services is so insidious. They get to both sell their product to you and sell you as a product. How many other businesses sell products to their own products?
@GossiTheDog Psst. Windows has been nothing but garbage spyware since Windows 10. Unless you've got an enterprise license, specifically block it on your firewall or have hacked your OS, there is no way to disable it. Pass it around.
@GossiTheDog are they sure that's not just how long it takes to find what you are meant to be working on in Teams after you start the day and return from Lunch?
@GossiTheDog I do have an objection to this. The way this is phrased makes it sound like they monitor everyone's keyboard usage. But if you read the article (I'm assuming this one: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/worklab/triple-peak-day), it specifically says they monitored their own employees keyboard usage. Which are two very different things.
Don't get me wrong, keyboard logging could still be part of windows, but this article says nothing about that.
@GossiTheDog yeah, I have noticed that it was written in 3rd person about Microsoft after I commented. Then their phrasing is bad to make people believe something else than the article says.
@GossiTheDog Fuck I hate telemetry. Productivity isn't being a monkey with a typewriter. And no shit, after having a couple of hours at work your productivity goes down. People need rests for a reason, and we all know this is going to be construed as the laziness of workers.
@GossiTheDog meetings at 1pm and 4-6pm are ultra cursed. Many eat at their desks already and if corporate America comes for dinner, too then when are the workers gonna eat, C-suite? The push on outlook calendar defaults just casually expanding the workday like what is this boring dystopia?
@GossiTheDog Presumably they're accounting for the roles they can't track when collecting this? When I worked there I had to bring my own device for 90% of my work - the device they provided literally couldn't do my job.
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Once again, making the mistake of equating (apparent) physical activity with productivity: no thinking time required in Microsoft World ™️
I recall a Staff Appraisal at (unspecified employer), where my manager had pulled the logs for the new configuration management tool and was passive-aggressively comparing those who'd checked-in the least files with the guy who'd done the most (which turned-out to be several large scripted batch runs of auto modified files...)🤷♂️
@GossiTheDog Just to screw things up for them, and because Teams chat on the web seems to be increasingly flakey, I often type out chat messages that are more than a short sentence long into a text editor and then cut-n-paste. They must think I'm fecking Mavis Beacon.
@GossiTheDog a LOT of places are doing this too. And other similar extreme surveillance stuff to track every second of an employee's day. It's bullshit.
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